574 AMERICAN HORSES. 



The origin of the Bashaws is traced back to Young 

 Bashaw, whose sire was the imported Barb of that name, 

 and whose dam was a thorough-bred. His grand-dam was 

 by imported Messenger. 



The Long Island Black Hawks (which are not related 

 to the Vermont Black Hawks) and the Blue Bulls have 

 practically disappeared from the track. 



" The Morgans are perhaps our oldest trotting family ; 

 and if they have not produced our very fastest trotters, 

 their produce undoubtedly deserve to take the very highest 

 rank as good-tempered, hardy and pleasant roadsters. 

 They are descended in the paternal line, from a horse 

 called Justin Morgan, that was bred in Vermont, foaled 

 1793, and died 1821. His blood has never been positively 

 known, although it is pretty well established that the 



thorough-bred predominated Go where you 



will among livery-stable keepers or horse-railroad managers, 

 and ask them what type of horse they have found most 

 profitable to use and wear out on the road, and they will 

 almost invariably answer, ' the old-fashioned Morgan ' " 

 (Sanders). 



As the typical American trotter does not seem to have 

 more thorough-bred blood than an average English or 

 Irish hunter, who has no possible claim to be a race-horse ; 

 the extraordinary speed of the American trotter at his 

 own particular gait, cannot be derived from the thorough- 

 bred, who is by no means fast at the trot. The subject 

 of the influence of thorough-bred blood on the American 

 trotter, has been ably discussed in the County Gentleman, 

 by Mr. L. M. Payne,' who tells us that " the fastest trotting 

 records at the close of 1902, do not give the advocates 

 of running blood in the trotter much comfort. The 

 records show that there are only ten trotters which have 

 trotted faster than 2.06. They are Cresceus (2.02J), 

 The Abbot (2.03^), Ahx (2.03I), Nancy Hanks (2.04), 

 Azote (2.04I), Directum (2.05^), John A. McKerron 

 (2. 05 J), Major Delmar (2.05I-), Lord Derby (2.05I), and 



